English 615: Modern English Linguistics

T 2:30 to 5:20
East Hall 306
Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
423 East Hall
372-8935
swellsj@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 10:00 to 11:00

Course Calendar

Dates Topic Reading Assignment
Week 1: Jan 9 Introduction and Phonetics
Week 2: Jan 16 Phonetics O'Grady Chapter 2
Week 3: Jan 23 More Phonetics beginning with Phonetics Bingo! OGrady chapter 2 Homework #1: Transcription
Homework #2: The Place/Manner/Voicing Puzzle
Week 4: Jan 30 Begin Morphology O'Ggrady et al chapter 4 Morphology Problems
Week 5: February 5 Continuing Morphology More Morphology Problems
Week 6: February 12 Phonology OGrady Chapter Three
Week 7: February 21 Syntax and 'typology OGrady Chapter Four Phonology Problems
Week 8: Feb 27 Syntax and 'typology
Week 9: March 6 Break
Week 10: March 13 Field Methods demo and Psycholinguistics Chapter 12
Slips pages
Homework 7: Speech Errors
Week 11: March 20 Midterm and More Psycholinguistics
Week 12: March 27 Last psycholinguistics
Week 13: April 3 Historical Linguistics Homework 8: Reconstruction Problems.
Week 14: April 10 Orthography Homework 9: Transliteration
Week 15: April 17 Orthography and L2 Acquisition Homework 10: L2 Acquisition

Updated: April 13, 2007